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Stephen Tall

We should support Lib Dem parliamentary candidate Maajid Nawaz in the face of death threats

By Stephen Tall | Tue 21st January 2014 - 2:00 pm

On 12th January, Maajid Nawaz, the Lib Dems’ parliamentary candidate for Hampstead and Kilburn, tweeted the following message:

 

He did so following his appearance on BBC1’s The Big Questions, which debated “whether human rights should always outweigh religious right”. Two audience members had worn the image on their T-shirts, with the BBC choosing not to show the image – which was the same as that worn by …

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